Author: Elaine Atwell

Elaine Atwell is the editor and founder of The Dart. Her work has been published in Vice, The Toast, The Mary Sue, and she was a longtime contributor to AfterEllen.com. She is the author of The Music Box, a trash novella about lesbian spies in WWII, and is also a writer of short fiction, songs, and biographies of herself in the third person. Find her on twitter @ElaineAtwell.

Y’ALL, I KNEW IT. And by “it,” I mean I knew that: –Riverdale was about to pull out of its slump -The reason for the slump was the lack of lady-centric storylines -Special Agent Jared Kushner was not what he appeared to be -Cheryl has a special archery practice outfit, and YES OBVIOUSLY THE ARROWS…

Heya folks, and welcome back to Riverdale. I’m sorry this recap is late, but I was struggling mightily to articulate exactly why the past two episodes have ranked as failures in my book; to describe the ways they failed. Was it Riverdale’s tendency to start with an idea for an elaborate set piece and then…

This week, Entertainment Weekly released an interview with David Yates, director of Fantastic Besats and Where to Find Them, and its upcoming sequel, The Crimes of Grindelwald, in which he revealed how his next film planned to address Albus Dumbledore’s sexuality. This kind of coy, “not explicitly” language is a reminder that when it comes to…

Riverdale. Oh Riverdale. I’m gonna speak for all your fans and ask: how could you do this to us? Do you have any idea how hard it is, going to bat for you? Our friends ask “so what are you watching on TV these days?” and we bravely dive in with “well it’s this really…

Hello and welcome back to Riverdale! I am so glad to be back to recapping a show I hadn’t realized I had missed so much until I watched this episode in the bathtub and laughed so hard I nearly drowned. (By season four, I guarantee someone will have died in that exact way.) I really…

For the past several days, every time I get on the internet, I am assaulted by advertisements encouraging me to see two films: Forever My Girl, and Phantom Thread. One is a schmaltzy Hallmark Channel reject that looks like The Notebook with erectile dysfunction, and the other is being widely hailed as a masterpiece, starring the greatest…

The first time I ever encountered the word “misandry” I was well out of college and I had to look up what it meant. I read it on The Toast, the dearly-loved and much-missed bookish girl hangout site, and in its original context, I adored it. I don’t remember the specific article where the word…

As every queer woman who has ever logged on to Netflix knows, lesbians are rich in tragedy. The typical story arc for women who love women in film and television goes something like this: Girl painfully comes to terms with feelings for other girl. The exploration of these feelings costs girl her job/children/parental approval, and…

Hello and welcome back to Alice!, the show about a middle-aged woman rediscovering her sexual power despite a town, a family, and a world that want to hold her back. What’s that you say? That’s not what this show is called or about or even an accurate representation of Alice Cooper’s circumstances? Well, someone should…

On last night’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Detective Rosa Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz) revealed something that her most ardent fans have long known: she is bisexual. http:// Be proud. 🏳 🌈 #BiVisibility #Brooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/qwMCByvnst — Brooklyn Nine-Nine (@Brooklyn99FOX) December 6, 2017 She shares this fact about herself after her friend and squadmate Detective Boyle catches her on the…